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PEPPER GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pepper grass mean?
• PEPPER GRASS (noun)
The noun PEPPER GRASS has 1 sense:
1. annual herb used as salad green and garnish
Familiarity information: PEPPER GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual herb used as salad green and garnish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common garden cress; garden pepper cress; Lepidium sativum; pepper grass; pepperwort
Hypernyms ("pepper grass" is a kind of...):
cress; cress plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste)
Meronyms (parts of "pepper grass"):
garden cress (cress cultivated for salads and garnishes)
Holonyms ("pepper grass" is a member of...):
genus Lepidium; Lepidium (cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress)
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